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Old 25-03-2003, 05:20 PM
Paul Kelly
 
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I live in the John Innes conservation area - a Garden suburb the building of
which made John Innes his fortune before he founded the John Innes Institute
in his country (sic, this is sw19 and was country at the turn of the
century) house which now houses a school. The institute long since departed
for the more rural climes of East Anglia.

One imaginative thing he did was to plant all front hedges in the area with
Holly, and the local park with 40 plus varieties of holly

Well, so much for preamble. We have recently noticed a problem with a good
number of the hollies in my street - they appear to be dying.

Honey fungus is the main suspect but I'm not so sure. Most mature
shrubs/trees I have seen succumb to HF seem to die off rapidly and in one
go. In this case the hedges are defoliating from the ground up but the rest
of the plant looks still healthy. In fact the leaf I am looking at as I type
looks like someone has drawn a wavy line through one side - the right bit is
dead, brown and brittle the rest of the leaf looks bright glossy and very
healthy - that is typical of the leaves on all the dying hedges. I've
explored the trunks of a number of trees at ground level and can see no sign
at all of the characteristic white mycelium below the bark. Also, when I
have seen honey Fungus go through a garden you can almost see the wavefront
moving across the ground, in this case just odd plants separated by many
feet are dying

The local conservation group is consulting Wisley and a specialist Holly
nursery, but I wondered if the collective wisdom of URG can suggest any
other possibility?

Paul Kelly


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Old 25-03-2003, 09:08 PM
Martin Sykes
 
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"Paul Kelly" wrote in message
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The local conservation group is consulting Wisley and a specialist Holly
nursery, but I wondered if the collective wisdom of URG can suggest any
other possibility?


This refers to the Holly Leaf Miner and Holly blight which match some of
your symptoms.
http://www.treeadviceservice.org.uk/pages/TAShot73.html


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Old 25-03-2003, 11:20 PM
Paul Kelly
 
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"Martin Sykes" wrote in message
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"Paul Kelly" wrote in message
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The local conservation group is consulting Wisley and a specialist Holly
nursery, but I wondered if the collective wisdom of URG can suggest any
other possibility?


This refers to the Holly Leaf Miner and Holly blight which match some of
your symptoms.
http://www.treeadviceservice.org.uk/pages/TAShot73.html



Thanks.

"The problem can be a particularly stricking sight in hedges - as infections
spread, arches of bare defoliated stems, in the shape of an inverted"v"
become visible."

Is an exact description of our problem!
Ain't URG wonderful!

pk


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